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Apple App Store has just reached 25 billions downloads few days ago and it's still counting to hit even higher downloads. No doubt about it, iOS development has been a hot topic, a phenomenal industry that makes billion of dollars. A successful app requires a good planning.Wire-framing is one of the important processes in planning stage to understand the flow of your app and also to identify possible issue with the usability and potential technical issue. Sketching and prototyping able to let you understand your app better. If it's not your own project, it will be far easier to explain it to your clients as well.

I learned to make loading animation when I was learning flash, it was flash 5! Nowadays, we see it in HTML/CSS/JS websites, especially those are AJAX driven. Loading animation is extremely useful to letting users know that the server is processing the request. Do not under estimate it, it can make a website responsive to user interaction. It's used as an indication of something is happening behind the scene, and inform users to wait for a while.

Websites need icons, at least that's what I think. If you use it wisely, icons can be used to replace long and boring text. In this post, I have collected 11 icon sets that I'm pretty sure you will need them. Enjoy!

Icons by their very nature can convey or represent the intended meaning/information provided they are used at the right place and in an appropriate manner. They have a high visual appeal which helps designers to enhance the design and at the same time attract the users’ attention. As designers and developers always keep an eye on the latest, innovative and attractive Icons to use them for their purpose, we present a list of Icon sets that are desirable and available free of cost.

If you are a designer and create beautiful and feature rich software and web applications, you would always be in the look out for attractive icon sets. Icons are mandatory when you want to present an easy to use yet an attractive interface to the users. More importantly, specific icons relate with specific applications and in some cases, the user will judge or assume the function of a feature from the icon associated with it.

Icon is an essential graphical element in web design and development. Not only in web development, Icons can be found in your desktop, applications, folders...... it's everywhere!

Here you go my friend, my first batch of icons.